ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube

Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent

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Horrific. This man had already been kidnapped at knifepoint near the border twice before he crossed and claimed asylum in 2019. Federal agents treated him with the same level of assaultive tactics before immediately shuffling him to TX TO deport him with no medical care after this brutal exchange.

Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · last mo.

On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.

THROWBACK: To the Make Polluters Pay campaign launch at the Aspen Ideas Climate conference. The mission is the same, and the coalition is growing: it's time to make corporate polluters pay their fair share for the climate crisis. linktr.ee/makepolluter...

Make Polluters Pay - Illinois Official: Instagram | Linktree

For all things related to the coalition of Illinois organizations committed to making sure corporate polluters pay their fair share for the mess they made.

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paul goyette@pgoyette.bsky.social · last yr.

Organizers with Sunrise Chicago launched the Make Polluters Pay campaign outside the Aspen Ideas Climate Conference at U of C this afternoon. They want Illinois legislators to force polluters to pay for damage done to local communities.

Trump admin has quietly drafted new rules governing the census expected to recategorize millions of immigrants (both unauthorized and legal) as not actually living here in the United States This would allow the GOP to steal congressional seats & redirect hundreds of billions of federal dollars

Inside Trump’s Stealth Trick to Rig the Census—and Congress

The administration’s latest power grab is disguised as boring technical guidance.

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Left, logo for Anthropic’s AI chatbot, Claude Right, Kurt Vonnegut’s drawing of an asshole in his 1973 novel, “Breakfast of Champions” Not only do they look alike, the same stuff comes out of it in either case.

Graphs showing cumulative area burned and carbon emissions in Ontario. Note in terms of area burned 2021 is the top spot but 2026 is top spot in terms of carbon emissions. Both are correct. The reason for this is that the 2026 fires are more severe - consumed more biomass (greater depth of burn).

ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:

there's (rightfully) been a lot of attention paid to la, chicago, minneapolis, and dc, but the the joint federal-local task force in memphis is uniquely horrifying in ways not seen in other cities. this is at least the fourth person shot during the task force's monthslong occupation.

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 2mo ago

Authorities claim Tyrin Johnson, 20, pulled gun on officers controversially deployed at instigation of Trump

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

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This was always coming. Always. And history tells us what will come next.

From Christopher Parente, attorney for former "Broadview Six" defendant Brian Straw:

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Chicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros' office: "Grand juries unwilling to deliberate individually or as a collective body… are a threat to the rule of law and could mean that a district is operating in such a way that federal criminal law cannot be enforced."

More than two dozen people arrived to face federal agents in five different unmarked vehicles with aftermarket emergency lights. One agent had a Jerusalem cross sticker on the back of his phone, a Christian symbol dating to the Crusades that more recently has been associated with white supremacy.

Federal agents crash into car while detaining man in Albany Park

It unfolded around 8:07 a.m. near Lawrence and Kedzie avenues as a black Nissan SUV began chasing a shirtless man before a different black Nissan SUV pulled out of grocery parking lot and hit a woman’...

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Violet Miller@vimiller.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This morning federal agents hit a woman’s vehicle while chasing and eventually detaining a man, later using a taser on him while pointing tasers and pepper spray at bystanders at Lawrence/Kedzie in Albany Park. Story to come via @chicago.suntimes.com

1/ This line is the border between Evanston and Rogers Park, Chicago’s northernmost neighborhood. On Oct. 31, it became the site of what appears to be an attempt by Evanston police to dodge the city’s sanctuary city ordinance... 🧵

Why does State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke request warrants for people who can't come to court bc ICE kidnapped them? And why would judges grant those requests?

Injustice Watch@injusticewatch.org · 3mo ago

We found cases in which Cook County prosecutors knew someone was in ICE custody and still requested a warrant when that person failed to show up to traffic court. Advocates argue it’s a violation of defendants’ due process rights. (Co-published with @chicagoreader.com)

After a Wisconsin town did this, the mayor said: “The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product. They were never really selling to us in the first place. They're selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.” (via boltsmag.org/verona-wisco...)

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down: www.404media.co/cities-are-c...

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

Under Trump, more than 145,000 US kids have been separated from their parents, a study shows

Under Trump, more than 145,000 US kids have been separated from their parents, a study shows

A thinktank investigation shows how immigration detention has torn apart families, and experts point to trauma

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I am so fucking proud of @brianstraw.bsky.social and his attorney Chris Parente for fighting tirelessly on the grand jury transcripts issue. Without them, there likely would have been an acquittal at trial, but no public awareness of the gross misconduct that took place in the Broadview 6 case.

So you won’t be able to Google things at Google anymore?

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 4mo ago

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

you see, everything starts to make a lot more sense when you realize laws are made up

Fuck 12. Defund the police.

shawn@mulchy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

the $900,000 for flock license plate readers and software is on top of the $815 million budgeted for the cook county sheriff's office in 2026. a separate, $300,000 line item for genetec lprs is unrelated to the flock contract, the sheriff's office said. chicagoreader.com/news/politic...

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

a revolving door of scumfuckery

Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 4mo ago

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration said on Tuesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement official David Venturella, who worked at private prison company GEO Group before rejoining ICE, will be the agency's new acting director.

New from 404 Media: spoke to four people who attended a trade show where senior ICE officials spoke about how much Palantir is supercharging their arrests. List of 20 million people on ICE agents phones now; increased chance of successful arrest from 28 to 80% www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...

ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir

The comments made by a senior ICE official at a trade show highlight how Palantir is increasing the speed at which ICE operates. Most people detained by ICE have no criminal conviction.

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It’s very simple: the 6 republican Supreme Court justices are functionally no different than klansmen

Ari Berman@ariberman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

new: sheriff tom dart is quietly pitching the cook county board on two new surveillance systems that could be approved as soon as thursday. dart wants $2 million for a software that uses ai to monitor the jail’s cameras for drug use and nearly $1 million for more flock license plate readers.

Cook County Sheriff’s Office pitches expanded surveillance network

Sheriff Tom Dart is quietly lobbying the Cook County board for an AI jail security system and nearly $1 million for license plate readers.

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